Why was she so fucking evil

Because she’s a witch?

>>213494459 (OP)
Cathy Carter Smith?

all foids are evil

>>213494459 (OP)
XX

She wasn't doing it for fun, she needed their life force.

>>213494459 (OP)
Got a link?

kino haircut

>>213494580
She was partially doing it for fun.

>>213494583
I finally found a stream after sifting through shit for half an hour and it’s decent quality… but it’s in fucking French. Awesome.

all w*man are evil

Best horror villain we've had in a long time.

>>213494853
Also best villain death.

Quirky wine aunt is not a scary image even if she is bald. Idk what was Cregger thinking with this mediocre reveal.

>>213494903
Filtered.

>>213494903
She’s supposed to be unnerving. She’s clownish and you can’t taker her seriously until it’s too late. The school receptionist knew what was up.

>>213494853
You actually found her scary? Why?

>>213495020
What? She wasn’t an amazing villain because she was scary. She was an amazing villain because she was nasty.

Villain is le ugly

>>213495035
Villains are often nasty.

Hand was tipped a little too quickly as something kinda boring. Great mystique early on though.

>>213495020
I didn't say she was scary, although the scares with her in the first half were well done. Like >>213494942 said, the point was for her to be clownish and silly, which is ultimately her greatest asset in getting people to let their guard down. She had a kino look and a kino performer. Nic Cage in Longlegs had similar potential but was undermined by how shit Longlegs was.

>>213494459 (OP)
what evil stuff did she do?

>>213495270
Kidnaps kids and eats their life energy. Torments her nephew in various ways.

I felt kind of bad when the kid asked her “and then you will leave us alone right?”, and she’s all like :(

>>213494459 (OP)
This seems like the type of stuff that only women and very small children would be scared of

That giant gun in the sky was so out of place. Just a red herring like all the references to parasites?

>>213494459 (OP)
would

i enjoyed the movie. i thought barbarian was fun but i'd put this one above

>>213495490
You've never seen something peculiar in your dreams? I'm guessing you've never had a dream since your brain is empty

>>213495802
What an odd thing to say.

>>213494459 (OP)
Witches be evil. Good witches are only for the horny fantasy stories.

>>213495490
It's supposed to connect to school shootings. Kids missing, only the parents care, the town moving on.

>>213494459 (OP)
"you haven't contacted the authorities yet, right?"

>>213495020
she's not scary in the sense that she immediately evokes terror
she's scary because of what she can do
Imagine someone who can keep you and your wife captives in your own house and torture you while they abuse your kid and there's nothing you can do about it
that's definitely a disturbing thought
she's scary the way a tsetse fly is scary. Maybe you don't scream in fright if you happen to see one but the things they can do to you are worth avoiding

>>213494459 (OP)
based on her look i assume its cause shes jewish

>>213494552
Based League of Gentlemen enjoyer.

>>213494459 (OP)
it's a really well done movie that drops a bunch of hints explaining what's really going on without overcommitting to detailed explanations about the underlying mechanics that would just leave everyone unsatisfied
Someone said it's a modern day pied piper and that's a pretty good analogy
It's also worth mentioning that it's a good look at what a modern day town plagued by a witch would look like. she basically has death note powers with a few extra steps, so while the police are incompetent, it's not surprising that they couldn't catch her. she's also completely ruthless, killing, lying, manipulating, and torturing as she sees fit to survive. A great take on what a witch would be like in the real world: a lone parasite alternately feigning weakness and murdering from the shadows as circumstance demands

>>213495914
Christ Almighty, it's real. It's like she's wearing a rubber mask of her own face

>>213496202
don't pay to watch it, ok?
I'm advising 100% of people in this thread not to pay to watch this, or any other media
The normies have it covered.
Now that we've got that out of the way, can we please fucking discuss the first movie I've actually enjoyed this year?
I've had to sit through infinity threads about fantastic four and superman, both of which were objectively mediocre, and the one time something comes out that I enjoy we can't fucking have a thread? jfc

>>213494459 (OP)

Such is the Jew

>>213494459 (OP)
The thing this film gets wrong is that if 17 children disappeared in America there would be press 24/7 infesting that town, tik tokers would be dancing in front of the houses, redditors would be doxxing and claiming some random guy they saw on CCTV took the children and republicans and democrats would be engaged in a 5 day culture war where nothing gets resolved.

The fact that nobody seemed to care to investigate the children or that noone in that town was particularly interested in finding out what happened is a huge plot hole.

>>213496422
there are still missing kids from that texas flood that happened a month ago. do you see media coverage about that anymore?
I actually follow missing people's cases and there are a ton (more than you'd expect) cases of missing 16 year old blondes who look completely normal and who never get the gabby petito treatment

>>213496422
>noone in that town was particularly interested in finding out what happened is a huge plot hole.
quite literally laid out within the first 2 minutes of the film

>>213495490
>Parasite references
>Red herring
Reposting my comment from the other thread
>The parasite angle was the most interesting part of the film, and I got the sense that the eyes bulging out of the sockets of the afflicted was a straight up nod to the parasitic worms that mind-control their hosts, manifest in the single-minded rage of Glady's victims. Her being essentially alien through preternatural longevity, also meant that her character exhibited a certain 'offness' like biological mimicry, the aposematic elements of the witch, the red hair, garish make up, colourful dress etc. small things that subtly alert you to a danger. I guess that could explain what the clown-caricature was supposed to symbolise in the townspeople's dreams, but again, the mere existence of the symbol implied a more sinister terror-feeding monster with a darker nature.
Anyone who's browsed /pol/ for longer than five minutes will have encountered someone trying to claim the Jews are parasitic humanoids that evolved convergently alongside humanity, but it was interesting to see that sort of idea put to film.
Honestly, I don't think this villain was particularly great. It was satisfying watching her get her comeuppance, don't get me wrong, but she felt incredibly underdeveloped and ultimately quite ineffective for all the build up.
The Giant Gun in the sky was retarded though. It just came off as contrived and ridiculous. Like something Kojima would pull.

>>213496497
>>213496507
Yeah but with the texas flood, republicans did exploit it and blamed other people. I'm glad the film doesn't deal with culture war shit but 16 kids going missing IRL would trigger at least some viral moment across the country. Also, with the texas flood the girls are dead so the "mystery" is solved and they can move on to the next thing, which is sydney sweeny i guess.

>>213496537
>but it was interesting to see that sort of idea put to film.
didn't the last of us already do this, which was inspired by the exact parasite that is shown infecting the ant in the film

>>213496422
>The thing this film gets wrong is that if 17 children disappeared in America there would be press 24/7 infesting that town, tik tokers would be dancing in front of the houses, redditors would be doxxing and claiming some random guy they saw on CCTV took the children and republicans and democrats would be engaged in a 5 day culture war where nothing gets resolved.
Lol. You’re probably one-hundred percent right.

>>213496497
>>213496507
Seventeen kids in the same class though? Really? It’s the perfect mix. A school AND an absurd mystery.

>>213496497
We know where the went they fucking drowned.

>>213496571
Last of Us is similar, and I think it's probably where knowledge of parasitizing fungal lifeforms and worms became ubiquitous pop-culture knowledge, but Weapons frames it so that the parasite is a conscious and malefic agent deliberately puppeteering its thralls, or 'weaponizing' them, as Brolin's character says with a wink to the screen as a giant Assault Rifle floats above him, as opposed to TLOU's naturalistic chaotic fungal zombie means of taking over hosts.

The 217 references were kinda cheesy, even having the wife of jack nicholson's son in the movie pushing her face through the door like jack in the shining.

>>213494459 (OP)
she's bald

>>213496537
>quite ineffective
she was successful in every avenue she attempted up until she was outsmarted by her own trick. how was she ineffective?

What’s the name of this movie/show??
I can’t find it!

>>213491713
The movie is about white and kike propensity for child rape and torture. Basically MK ULTRA

>>213496422
You're right, but it would only happen for a few weeks and then everyone would move on to something else

>>213497206
The way they introduced her character as this unsettlingly foreign presence from the very second she randomly showed up in the principals office looking like a demented old Raggedy Ann gave her a calculated, shadowy, alien demeanour. You were never in doubt from the second she appeared that she was anything other than the reason behind the film's events. The scenes with her performing rituals/seances, and the foreshadowing of the clownish nightmare incarnation of herself in people's dreams, made it seem like Glady's abilities weren't just marionetting people, and that there was a uniquely inhuman arcane alchemical/ritual basis for her magic that drew from something ancient and mythologised in omen by modern civilisation.
Having a kid be able to replicate that from what seemed like mostly intuition and imitation negated the supernatural threat. It felt like a last minute cop-out, which was something I also felt from her last-minute change of plans when things started going remotely awry. Having her character foiled so effortlessly like a goofy scooby doo villain on the virtue of a kid finally being brave enough to stand up detracted from the killer mystery set up. Post-watch, the whole thing just feels like a second-rate Stephen King adaptation. Or a particularly good goosebumps episode.

>>213497344
Weapons
new movie just came out yesterday
before I get accused of shilling, you should have an english rip in a few days so please don't take my comment as a commercial endorsement of anything
I'm just trying to be helpful

Literally an evil wine aunt. Love it.

>>213496375
Why did you ~have~ to sit through capeshit threads? Did you have a gun to your head? Are you just mentally impaired?

>>213497562
>Having a kid be able to replicate that from what seemed like mostly intuition and imitation negated the supernatural threat
Well, we live in a materialistic world. Her power was likely not truly her own, if she could be undone like that. We don’t know where she acquired her plant, or why she waited until she had cancer to go and try to sustain herself. She could have sold her soul to some demon or alien on her deathbed for all we know.

>>213497562
>on the virtue of a kid finally being brave enough to stand up detracted from the killer mystery set up.
if A24 had made the movie she would have killed everyone and taken the kid and presumably you could then call the movie "brave" but it would be a shitty depressing ending and sometimes it's ok to give the audience what they want
it was very cathartic to see her get hoisted on her own petard in the end. when the kid took her wig, I thought he was going to try to control her instead but he was looking for loose hairs in there.
that is the unbelievable part. that a kid would be so determined and resourceful, but if somehow a kid could actually do something like that, it would have caught her off guard as well, which is what happened
when my daughter was 9 I bought a gun and I had a safe in the house so that she wouldn't be able to get at it and hurt herself or others
a few weeks earlier, she had cracked my computer password by quietly watching me enter it and writing down one character at a time over several days
one day I opened my safe and there was a stick figure drawing of her and me together hugging inside it on top of my gun
For a crazy second I thought she had figured out a way to crack the safe like she had my password and I felt panic welling up in me. What had actually happened was more simple: she just slid the drawing in through the cracks. God knows what possessed her to do that, but she put the wind in me.
Anyway, point is, kids can surprise you.

>>213497562
>Having her character foiled so effortlessly like a goofy scooby doo villain
That was literally the best part of the movie and messing around with black magic is bound to backfire, and she got what she deserved ten times over. Hubris is the bane of all witches and wizards.

>>213494459 (OP)
Movie was aggressively mid

>>213494564
>>213494560
Okay but this

“Nooooo- how could I be beaten by a little brat, nooooooo-“

>>213497713
>one day I opened my safe and there was a stick figure drawing of her and me together hugging inside it on top of my gun
kek that's a fun kid. she got you gud

>>213497880
Girls are sharper than boys at that age too

>>213494459 (OP)
Cool movie, but I don't get how she is related to the family she took hostage since the movie made it obvious she is a centuries old witch (see the tubercolosis bit with the principal)
Also pretty nasty power given how it makes people vomit blood and apparently it takes years to recover from if ever, the kind of shit that fucks your body up pretty badly

>>213498129
>Cool movie, but I don't get how she is related to the family she took hostage
the point is, she's not
if you're a centuries old witch, you probably don't have any connections to the world so she probably used her mind control magic to insert herself into the family at some point
take over some elderly family member you met at bingo and have them introduce you as an aunt or whatever and then insinuate yourself into some other family member's home and mind control them and that's how you burrow in. like a parasite.
They hinted at this btw with everyone being hazy at her actual relationship to the family
sometimes she was mentioned as alex's aunt (mother's sister) but at other times she was introduced as his great aunt (grandmother's sister)
the consumption reference was clever because it immediately dated her and made her feel foreign

>>213497713
do anons here really have kids?
like are you guys really that old and did you manage to trick a real live woman into fucking you and bearing your children?

>>213498257
been here since 2004, married and 2 kids. all you have to do is not suck. literally. anyone who can't get a gf sucks inside and out, pure and simple

>>213494853
>>213494869
Watch more movies zoomers holy fucking shit

>>213495953
>>213496059
>spoilering horrorslop about an evil witch mind controlling people

>>213495802
I have some very visual dreams but nothing as fucking stupid as that. Have you anon? Brain fogger

>>213498360
suggest something better
barbarian and bring her back were both similar movies but the storytelling was better here and the ending more satisfying
hereditary is another close relative to weapons, and while it is a really good movie, it has the bad ending, which some might prefer and others might not

>>213496059
>tranime fag using anime to defend her horror slop
That's a guarantee this film is targeted to trannies and letterboxd posers

“You didn’t alert them right?”
“No?”
*snaps stick*

>>213498417
Together was leagues better than all of those movies combined.
>satisfying ending
A trite ending where the kids beat the main villain? You liked Thor Love and Thunder too? Spy Kids?
Watch more movies zoom zoom

WHY ARENT THE WEBM FAGS POSTING WEBMS FFS

>>213498475
together wasn't bad and it had some interesting visuals but storytelling was better for weapons
also I related to the characters more and cared about them
>>213498475
>A trite ending where the kids beat the main villain? You liked Thor Love and Thunder too? Spy Kids?
"huh? you liked the witch getting killed? do you like teletubies too? huh? HUH?"
chill out, dude. yeah. it was a satisfying ending to see the witch underestimate the kids determination and pay with her life.
you have other movies that show the other outcome if you like. hereditary, for instance.
not everything has to be le subverted expectations ebin edgy grimdark ending and it doesn't make you a kid if you enjoy something more cathartic
the witch is built up to be truly evil and seeing her die was a satisfying ending to a well made movie

>>213498222
Yeah I realized that as I wrote the post
Also I wonder why they made the victims run with their arms spread apart, is it just to give off a creepy uncanny valley effect or is it a reference to something like the blair witch effigies?

>>213498604
fun to speculate on but if they had explained it, we'd hate the explanation
better to have the mystery

>>213498604
It's supposed to evoke that photo of the napalmed kids in Vietnam. What does that have to do with a witch? No idea, and the hack who wrote it doesn't have one either.

>>213498593
Having an 8 year old suddenly know how to do witchcraft on the level of a 100 year old witch is not good writing kek and definitely not a satisfying ending. It's rushed and desperate to add a layer of subversion which you were saying it was omitting.

>>213498729
It's a very stupid and pointless mystery desu. Espeically since it has no major significance besides
>le creepy
I even saw 20 year olds run like them for a IG reel when we pulled up to the theater last night. Giggling like gay men, shit is 100% targeted to them.

>>213498754
he couldn't do witchcraft though
you can imagine witchcraft as being a heavily front-loaded practice where doing the hair wrapping and branch snapping is relatively easy, but how do you make that weird thorn tree in the first place
that's probably where the skill actually lies
it's like wondering how a kid can send a text message even though they didn't master electrical engineering. Alex saw how she used the tools and imitated her.

>>213494459 (OP)
this movie was retarded and this director/writer is on my shit list along with Perkins. I'm sorry James Wan, i shouldnt have doubted you. Are we really lacking for good horror directors these days? David Bruckner? (2022 Hellraiser, Siren, The Ritual)

>>213498781
it does look creepy though
I don't know why they ran like that but it *did* have significance in the movie because it was how Archer and the teacher made the connection of the gay asian dude to the missing kids

>>213498417
The most recent movie this reminded me the most of was black phone, although this one was clearly more macabre and bent on the horror side
>>213498475
All movies with a bad ending are nihilistic dogshit and people who enjoy or want more of them are rotten disgusting individuals

>>213498887
>it does look creepy though
no, it doesnt.

Also how the FUCK did she overpower Archer in the basement?

>>213497049
Thats 237...and 217 is police code for intent for murder for whatever that means

>>213498913
it looked creepy to me and it made the movie more enjoyable
I'm sorry you didn't experience the same exact thing as I did
what now?

>>213497049
>>213498938
2:17 am was when Moore took his spill off the balcony

>>213498921
she didn't. she grabbed his dog tags or necklace or whatever the fuck he had on his neck and probably had a thorn branch and the bell ready to go

>>213498940
the movie was bad and not creepy
I win. you lose.

>>213498977
Well she must have cat tier reflexes because if I were built like Archer and saw that thing in the dark I wouldn't waste a splitsecond uppercutting the shit outta her

>>213499095
that's a good point but I don't think archer was loaded for bear
he just realized that his son might actually be alive after probably making peace with the thought that he's probably dead
dude was just frantically trying to find his little boy at that point which allowed the witch to get the drop on him

>>213494459 (OP)
Women are inherently evil beings. Witches are women that have completely given themselves over to sin, evil, and madness.

>>213499304
>Women are inherently evil beings
WW2

>>213498729
>if they had explained it, we'd hate the explanation
Here's your explanation
>muh vietnam

>>213494459 (OP)
All these years of feminist propaganda spent on making witches look like poor misunderstood women who were actually good but attacked by le evil white Christian man
...and any horror movie effortlessly manages to make them as nasty and disgusting beings as they have always been perceived throughout history with their defeat being as cathartic and satisfying as the first time

>>213499505
I've read that before but that's not how I took it
it's not "why" they are running like that
it's just using a helpful visual to describe how they look
I think they just needed a distinctive way for them all to run so the connection could be made between the principal's run and the kids'

>>213499572
>wE aRe tHe WiTchEs u fOrGot 2 bUrN

>>213499572

So where was she keeping the kids? A house made of candy?

>>213499572
Why are old wizards always portrayed as wise and powerful and benevolent, while old witches are always portrayed as petty and vain and cruel?

>>213498257
yeah the rule here is that you can never leave not that you can never have a life

>>213499505
that's not an "explanation"
at no point does le brando le chuckle in le heart of jorge

>Guy dreams of a weapon in the sky
>Movie is called Weapons
HOLY SHIT

>>213500192
brava clegger, brava

>>213499868
Because they are in "tune" with nature & carry big sticks to wack you off

>>213499695
in the basement for some reason.

>>213500558
where does she send them to hang out when the cops show up?

>>213500192
When Josh Brolin turned around during this scene and said, "Forgot to mention, the name's Gun Weaponsman," followed immediately by "Happiness is a warm gun" playing as Hideo Kojima's name appeared on screen as co-writer, I stood up and clapped.

>>213497562
>Having a kid be able to replicate that from what seemed like mostly intuition and imitation negated the supernatural threat
Nah man the kid was being set up as the next witch thats why she was gonna take him with her when the police were on their troll, and why she never fed off of him

>>213499868
extrapolations of SMV

Where did she get her plant from.

>>213502614
might have been years of work, a pact with a demon, or a witch's sabbath
the plant was her main tool and it's not just some ordinary plant since the boy was able to use its power too

>>213496422
Maybe true even 10 years ago but the police departments are crumbling in most cities post-Floyd. The amount of crimes that aren't even investigated is shocking. They just keep up a facade to keep everything from totally collapsing, but it's very close to happening.

>>213502614
Passed down through generations.

>>213502614
We aren’t supposed to know. It’s definitely not natural. And by not natural I mean “nature would never evolve such an evil plant into being”.

>>213502614
I sold it to her.

>>213503771
Is your name Moloch?

>>213496422
Did you miss the part where they skipped the entire first month of them missing while the school was closed down?

>>213498257
Get back to me in December when my first spawn crawls into our hellscape we share. She will have to be a great warrior to survive the onslaught

>>213499868
There have been plenty of old wizards portrayed as evil, though.

>>213504017
And yet they still have sagely advice to share.

Creggar writes funny character moments like Paul being a fuck up and Benedict Wong being comically gay. That just made me more mad about that 30 minute section where they’re just explaining the plot

>>213497713
this made me smile but it's likely bullshit

Zach had a very interesting and potential-filled premise and he went about it in the most generic execution possible.

>>213499364
Judaism is a matriarchal religion.

>crackhead keeps getting back up
lmao kino, Cregger watched Friday the 13th Part 6 for sure

>>213504133
How would you have made the movie?

>>213504325
The mix of humor with disturbing witchcraft was fun.

>>213504583
I would have subverted expectations
the end of the witch being killed by the kids was dumb
I would have her kill archer and the teacher and start over in another town
you should challenge your audience

>>213495914

>>213494459 (OP)
Bros the teacher awoke something in me. Imagine coming home from a long shift and you get to plap plap that curly haired little minx

>>213504660
So everybody dies, how original

>Amy Madigan
WTF?

>>213505804
She did a good job

>>213505241
She's a homewrecker!

Alex you idiot you should have learned more from her

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